Xenophon Anabasis 5.8.22

Carleton L. Brownson (Translator)

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[22] Consequently you gave the bad among them freedom to act wantonly by thus letting them alone.
For I think, if you care to look into the matter, you will find it is the very same men who were then most cowardly that are now most wanton.

Anabasis. Xenophon. Carleton L. Brownson (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1921-1922.

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Anabasis (English) (Xenophon in Seven Volumes, Vol. 2-3. Brownson, Carleton L, editor, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1921-1922.)

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Ἀνάβασις Perseus (Xenophon. Opera omnia, Vol. 3. Marchant, Edgar Cardew, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1904.) — 5.8.22 focus

[22] τοιγαροῦν ἐξουσίαν ἐποιήσατε τοῖς κακοῖς αὐτῶν ὑβρίζειν ἐῶντες αὐτούς. οἶμαι γάρ, εἰ ἐθέλετε σκοπεῖν, τοὺς αὐτοὺς εὑρήσετε καὶ τότε κακίστους καὶ νῦν ὑβριστοτάτους.

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